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86
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706
National Ranking
309

Overview

Kenneth J. Davis is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and earth sciences, focusing on interactions between the atmosphere, vegetation, and land surfaces.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, including:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The research fields predominantly covered by Kenneth J. Davis are Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with work in several subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Among recent published papers are:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Confronting the water potential information gap (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • Policy-Relevant Assessment of Urban CO2 Emissions (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Concurrent variation in oil and gas methane emissions and oil price during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Kenneth J. Davis include:

  • N. L. Miles
  • Thomas Lauvaux
  • Sha Feng
  • Scott J. Richardson
  • Zachary Barkley

Best Publications

  • FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

    Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

    B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

    Ramón A. Alvarez;Daniel Zavala-Araiza;David R. Lyon;David T. Allen

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • A near-field tool for simulating the upstream influence of atmospheric observations: The Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model

    J. C. Lin;Christoph Gerbig;S. C. Wofsy;A. E. Andrews

  • Ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes after disturbance in forests of North America

    B. D. Amiro;A. G. Barr;J. G. Barr;T. A. Black

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data

    Wenping Yuan;Shuguang Liu;Shuguang Liu;Guirui Yu;Jean Marc Bonnefond

  • A multi-site analysis of random error in tower-based measurements of carbon and energy fluxes

    Andrew D. Richardson;Andrew D. Richardson;David Y. Hollinger;George G. Burba;Kenneth J. Davis

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development

    Dana R. Caulton;Paul B. Shepson;Renee L. Santoro;Jed P. Sparks

  • Comparing net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide between an old-growth and mature forest in the upper Midwest, USA

    Ankur R. Desai;Paul V. Bolstad;Bruce D. Cook;Kenneth J. Davis

  • Reconciling divergent estimates of oil and gas methane emissions

    Daniel Zavala-Araiza;David R. Lyon;Ramón A. Alvarez;Kenneth J. Davis

  • An Objective Method for Deriving Atmospheric Structure from Airborne Lidar Observations

    K. J. Davis;N. Gamage;C. R. Hagelberg;C. Kiemle

  • High Resolution Atmospheric Inversion of Urban CO2 Emissions During the Dormant Season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX)

    Thomas Lauvaux;Thomas Lauvaux;Natasha Miles;Aijun Deng;Scott Richardson

  • Carbon exchange and venting anomalies in an upland deciduous forest in northern Wisconsin, USA

    Bruce D. Cook;Kenneth J. Davis;Weiguo Wang;Ankur Desai

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • The annual cycles of CO2 and H2O exchange over a northern mixed forest as observed from a very tall tower

    Kenneth J. Davis;Peter S. Bakwin;Chuixiang Yi;Bradford W. Berger

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Lauvaux
Thomas Lauvaux Pennsylvania State University
Scott J. Richardson
Scott J. Richardson Pennsylvania State University
Kevin R. Gurney
Kevin R. Gurney Northern Arizona University
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anna Karion
Anna Karion National Institute of Standards and Technology
Peter S. Bakwin
Peter S. Bakwin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Klaus Keller
Klaus Keller Dartmouth College
Bruce D. Cook
Bruce D. Cook Goddard Space Flight Center
Daniel M. Ricciuto
Daniel M. Ricciuto Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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